The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is suffering a severe financial crisis that has apparently forced it to cut costs, worrying Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip who depend to a large extent on the agency's assistance.

In the early hours of Friday morning, two Palestinian houses were set alight in the West Bank village of Duma in a suspected arson attack by Jewish extremists. Eighteen-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha was killed in the blaze, while his father and mother, Saad and Reham Dawabsha, and another so...

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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is suffering a severe financial crisis that has apparently forced it to cut costs, worrying Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip who depend to a large extent on the agency's assistance.

Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda movement said on Friday that the government led by its former leader Hamadi Jebali extradited the former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Mahmoudi al-Baghdadi in 2012 based on a court ruling issued in Tunis, Anadolu has reported.

The EU has called for strict measures to be taken against the extremist Jewish settlers whose arson attack burnt a Palestinian baby to death and injured three of his family members severely, Safa reported on Friday.

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In the early hours of Friday morning, two Palestinian houses were set alight in the West Bank village of Duma in a suspected arson attack by Jewish extremists. Eighteen-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha was killed in the blaze, while his father and mother, Saad and Reham Dawabsha, and ...

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INQUIRY by Asa Winstanley

In 1968 in New York City, an American rabbi named Meir Kahane founded an organization called the Jewish Defence League. Despite the claim in the name to be defending the Jewish community from anti-Jewish attacks, the JDL was from the start far more concerned with going on the attack against its enem...